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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Ng’etich",
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        "legal_name": "Cecilia Chelangat Ngetich",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I stand here to support the Public Service (Values and Principles) Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 29 of 2014) which once passed, will bring sanity in Public Service. That way, we will go a long way in achieving our mandate within a certain given time. Hon. Deputy Speaker, quality service is also dependent on the qualifications of the people. If people are not qualified, then no one should expect quality services. Secondly, as stipulated here, this Bill seeks to put in place certain high standards of professionalism. In particular, I want to refer to Part 2 of the Bill which actually stipulates that one has to exercise high standards of professionalism with honesty and integrity. I also want to say that the big problem in Public Service has been supervision. Sometime back, the Government tried to bring performance contracts which, though they brought about some improvement, have not worked. That is because they did not last. They were only seen to be meeting deadlines et cetera and yet, the quality of service was not translating to what the contracts were reading. I, therefore, want to suggest that what is important and which I have noted in one of the clauses here, is to ensure that there will be a professional body. It should be a body that can regulate the qualifications, register the professionals and even license them. That is because professionals who will be registered and licensed will be very careful to perform highly because of fear of cancellation of their licences due to poor performance or offering shoddy services. Section 5(3)(a) says that a public servant shall comply with the provisions of the relevant professional associations regarding registration and continuing professional development. At this point, allow me to bring to the attention of Members the fact that the current stalemate and crisis that we are seeing in technical universities pertains to the concerns about the qualifications of engineering technologists and technician students. It also concerns lack of a registration body or a board that can register them, so that even as they offer their services, we can know whether they are the right people to perform such services. For example, we will know that a certain building took an architect to draw and come up with a very good design, but it will take a mason, plumber, artisan and other The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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